Wild Palms
Wild Palms main cast
Genre	Sci-Fi Drama
Created by	Oliver Stone, Bruce Wagner
Starring	Bebe Neuwirth Angie Dickinson Dana Delany James Belushi Kim Cattrall Robert Loggia Nick Mancuso Not Shown: David Warner Ernie Hudson Ben Savage Bob Gunton
Country of origin	USA
No. of episodes	2-part miniseries
Production
Running time	270 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC
Original run	May, 1993 – May, 1993
External links
IMDb profile

Wild Palms is a six hour mini-series, which first aired in 1993 on the ABC Network in the United States. From its beginning, "Wild Palms" was conceived as an Event Miniseries, with a limited amount of episodes. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 300 × 199 pixelsFull resolution (300 × 199 pixel, file size: 13 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Publicity photo for Wild Palms mini-series. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946), known simply as Oliver Stone, is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director and screenwriter. ... Bruce Alan Wagner (born March 20, 1954) is an American novelist, screenwriter and director based in Los Angeles. ... Bebe Neuwirth Beatrice Bebe Neuwirth (born December 31, 1958) is an American theater, television, and film actress. ... Angie Dickinson (born September 30, 1931) is a famous American television and film actress who is probably best-known for her Golden Globe-winning role as sultry Sgt. ... Dana Welles Delany (born March 13, 1956 in New York City, New York) is an American film, stage, and television actress. ... James Edgar Belushi (born June 15, 1954) is an American actor, comedian, musician and younger brother of the late comedian John Belushi. ... Infobox actor | name = Kim Cattrall | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birthname = Kim Victoria Cattrall | birthdate = August 21, 1956 ) (age 50) | location = Widnes, Lancashire, England | notable role = Emmy in Mannequin Lieutenant Valeris in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Samantha Jones in Sex and the City | goldenglobeawards = Best Supporting Actress - Miniseries 2003 Sex... Robert Loggia (b. ... Nicodemo (Nick) Antonio Massimo Mancuso (b. ... David Warner David Warner (born July 29, 1941 in Manchester, England) is an English actor who often plays sinister or evil characters. ... Ernie Hudson (born December 17, 1945) is an American actor. ... Ben Savage, (born Bennett Joseph Savage on September 13, 1980) is an American film and TV actor and child star of the 1990s. ... Bob Gunton (born November 15, 1945 in Santa Monica, California) is an American actor who is known for his role as the evil Warden Norton in the 1994 movie The Shawshank Redemption. ... A miniseries (sometimes mini-series), in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... A miniseries, in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ...

Produced by Oliver Stone, and Bruce Wagner — who was also the writer — Wild Palms was a sci-fi drama about the dangers of brainwashing through technology and drugs. It was based on a comic strip written by Wagner and illustrated by Julian Allen first published in 1990 in Details magazine. William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946), known simply as Oliver Stone, is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director and screenwriter. ... Bruce Alan Wagner (born March 20, 1954) is an American novelist, screenwriter and director based in Los Angeles. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... Cover of an issue of Details magazine Details, a monthly mens magazine, is published by Condé Nast Publications. ...

Plot synopsis

In the year 2007, Harry Wyckoff (James Belushi) is a patent attorney and family man. His wife Grace (Dana Delany) runs a clothing store, his daughter Deirdre has been a slow developer, yet to speak a word, and his son Coty (Ben Savage) — a television addict — has just got an acting job on a new sitcom, Church Windows, alongside famous actress Tabba Schwartzkopf (Bebe Neuwirth). However, Wyckoff is plagued by strange dreams — of himself being pursued by a rhinoceros, and of a strange tattoo of a palm tree. Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... James Edgar Belushi (born June 15, 1954) is an American actor, comedian, musician and younger brother of the late comedian John Belushi. ... A patent attorney is an attorney who has the specialized qualifications necessary for representing clients in obtaining patents and acting in all matters and procedures relating to patent law and practice, such as filing an opposition. ... Dana Welles Delany (born March 13, 1956 in New York City, New York) is an American film, stage, and television actress. ... Ben Savage, (born Bennett Joseph Savage on September 13, 1980) is an American film and TV actor and child star of the 1990s. ... Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play. ... Bebe Neuwirth Beatrice Bebe Neuwirth (born December 31, 1958) is an American theater, television, and film actress. ... Black Rhino from Howletts Wild Animal Park For other uses, see Rhinoceros (disambiguation). ... Genera Many; see list of Arecaceae genera Arecaceae (also known as Palmae or Palmaceae), the palm family, is a family of flowering plants, belonging to the monocot order Arecales. ...

Things begin to unravel one day when Wyckoff is visited by a former lover whom he hasn't seen in fifteen years, Paige Katz (Kim Cattrall). Paige comes to Harry asking for his help in tracking down her son Peter, who disappeared five years earlier. But Paige works for the Wild Palms Group, which Wyckoff's firm is going up against in court. His meetings with her invite suspicion from both sides, leading to a promised promotion being removed, and Wyckoff leaving his job. Infobox actor | name = Kim Cattrall | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birthname = Kim Victoria Cattrall | birthdate = August 21, 1956 ) (age 50) | location = Widnes, Lancashire, England | notable role = Emmy in Mannequin Lieutenant Valeris in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Samantha Jones in Sex and the City | goldenglobeawards = Best Supporting Actress - Miniseries 2003 Sex...

Luck comes Wyckoff's way when Paige introduces him to her boss, Senator Anton Kreutzer (Robert Loggia), the founder of the Synthiotics religion, and the inventor of New Realism — a philosophy which is not well described but has something to do with a form of virtual reality which Kreutzer has developed at his company Mimecom. Kreutzer's plan, he claims, is to use this technology at his television station — Channel 3 — the same station where Wyckoff's son is now acting. Church Windows will be the first show to air in this method, where the action will take place in living rooms across the country, and people will be able to interact with the reality. Out of nowhere, the Senator offers Wyckoff a job as head of the business department at Channel 3, which he accepts. Robert Loggia (b. ... The philosopher Socrates about to take poison hemlock as ordered by the court. ... Virtual reality (VR) is a technology which allows a user to interact with a computer-simulated environment, be it a real or imagined one. ...

However, all is not well in the world. In a restaurant with his old college friend Tommy (Ernie Hudson), Wyckoff sees another patron forcibly dragged away by a group of men. Strangely, no one else pays any heed to it. Wyckoff witnesses similar events happening with police around town. Though disturbed by this, Harry has no feelings of empathy for the victim, but finds himself "rooting for" the attackers, without knowing why. When Coty goes to stay with Grace's mother Josie (Angie Dickinson), she asks if he has had "the rhinoceros dream." When he responds that he has, she tells him to keep it secret, since it means he is special. Ernie Hudson (born December 17, 1945) is an American actor. ... Angie Dickinson (born September 30, 1931) is a famous American television and film actress who is probably best-known for her Golden Globe-winning role as sultry Sgt. ...

Then, in Grace's presence, Deirdre utters her first words: "everything must go." The peculiarity of this is furthered when Senator Kreutzer tells Wyckoff of a group called the Friends who killed his father shortly after the man had a fire sale, with a banner saying "everything must go." At a dinner party, Grace and Wyckoff run into Tabba and her "consort," Tully Woiwode (Nick Mancuso). Tully is there with his sister Maisy, whom Harry recognizes as the woman who had been dining with the man who was abducted in the restaurant. When Wyckoff confronts her, she denies this. Nicodemo (Nick) Antonio Massimo Mancuso (b. ...

Wyckoff continues to be stunned by the bizarre occurrences going on around him. Grace sinks into depression over what she fears is a relationship between her husband and Paige; she and Wyckoff separately learn about the two political groups: the "Friends," and their enemies, the pseudo-fascist "Fathers," who had been known to steal the children of their enemies. Grace comes to fear that Coty is not her son, but one who was put in his place when her real son was abducted. Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ...

Wyckoff slowly discovers that the Fathers, led by Josie, the Senator and Paige, are developing a grand plan involving the Mimecom technology, and that the Friends — one of whom is Grace's incarcerated father, Eli Levitt (David Warner) — are trying to fight back. David Warner David Warner (born July 29, 1941 in Manchester, England) is an English actor who often plays sinister or evil characters. ...

From this start, a deadly web of intrigue, betrayal and murder surrounds Wyckoff.

Wild Palms also stars:

• Charles Hallahan as Gavin, a colleague of Wyckoff
• Robert Morse as Chap Starfall, a lounge singer
• Bob Gunton as Dr. Tobias Schenkl, Wyckoff's psychiatrist
• Aaron Michael Metchik as Peter, a boy who assists the Friends
• Charles Rocket as Stitch, a lounge comedian
• and Brad Dourif as Chickie Levitt, Eli's son and a cripple, who has extensive knowledge of the virtual reality program.

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Episodes

Originally designed to air over five weeks, complications resulted in the miniseries being screened as two installments.

1. Everything Must Go (90 minutes) - directed by Peter Hewitt
2. The Floating World (45 minutes) - directed by Keith Gordon
3. Rising Sons (45 minutes) - directed by Kathryn Bigelow
4. Hungry Ghosts (45 minutes) - directed by Keith Gordon
5. Hello I Must Be Going (45 minutes) - directed by Phil Joanou

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Poetry and Songs

• "Running to Paradise," by W. B. Yeats, is quoted by Senator Kreutzer in conversation with Harry Wyckoff: "The wind is old and still at play / While I must hurry upon my way, / For I am running to Paradise"
• "The Hollow Men" by T. S. Eliot features Kreutzer's last words "This is the way the world ends/ Not with a bang but a whimper".
• "Hello, I Must Be Going" by Groucho Marx (from Animal Crackers, 1930), sung by the dying Kreutzer.
• "O Captain" by Walt Whitman is repeatedly alluded to and recited after the Fathers' demise.

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Wild Palms Reader

A book published to coincide with the mini-series supposedly featuring writing from the “world of the series." Contributors included:

• Norman Spinrad - radical sci-fi writer of Bug Jack Barron & the Adolf Hitler "novel," The Iron Dream
• Genesis P. Orridge - Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle
• E. Howard Hunt - Nixon era scandal, writer of spy/sci-fi novels
• William Gibson - Appears as himself in Wild Palms and contributes some poetry to Wild Palms Reader
• Brenda Laurel - VR Guru & consultant on Wild Palms
• Lemmy - writes an anti-syntheotics song in 1997 though the Wild Palms Reader was notpub. 1993
• Spain Rodriguez - Underground 60’s comics artist illustrates the Mimecom backstory
• Hans Moravec - The science of Wild Palms, backdated to the 70’s and an email conversion between the fathers of two characters

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The Production design

• The Japanese influence, Charles Rennie MacIntosh
• 1950s/1960s open-top cars (in the Wild Palms Reader - all non-electric cars have been banned after a severe emission bill leaving no smog)
• Victorian suits

Wild Palms VHS cover

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Trivia

• Cyberpunk author William Gibson has a cameo appearance as himself. When the author of Neuromancer is introduced as the man who invented the term "Cyberspace", he remarks, "and they've never let me forget it."
• Oliver Stone has a unique cameo, in which he appears as himself - being interviewed on television in 2007- after the release of files pertinent to the assassination of John F. Kennedy reveal that Stone's film, JFK, was right. Stone also referred to "the late Jack Valenti" in the scene in the 1992 movie. Coincidentally, Valenti, creator of the movie rating system and critic of "JFK", would live until 2007, dying on April 26.
• The soundtrack was created by Ryuichi Sakamoto
• Stone hired musician, body-modification pioneer, and occultist Genesis P-Orridge as a consultant for the series.

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DVD release

Wild Palms was released on Region 1 and Region 4 DVD in October 2005. The following is an excerpt of the article entitled DVD. For the sake of convenience, the terms Region 0, Region 1, Region 2, Region 3, Region 4, Region 5, Region 6, Region 7 and Region 8 redirect to this page. ... The following is an excerpt of the article entitled DVD. For the sake of convenience, the terms Region 0, Region 1, Region 2, Region 3, Region 4, Region 5, Region 6, Region 7 and Region 8 redirect to this page. ... Size comparison: A 12 cm Sony DVD+RW and a 19 cm Dixon Ticonderoga pencil. ...

External links

• Wild Palms at the Internet Movie Database
• TV.com
• Action TV
• Article on the actual Mimecom